Bersih not looking for an Arab Spring, Ambiga tells CNNs Amanpour


Ambiga stressed that Malaysians do not take to a travel so easily unless it is for a very good reason. File pic
KUALA LUMPUR, November 6 The Bersih 2.0 transformation does not wish to cause an Arab Spring in Malaysia, Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan told CNN in a rare talk upon general television aired here this morning.
She stressed that a election watchdog group she heads only wants a purify polls routine to ensure a democratically-elected government.
Ambiga told CNN's Christiane Amanpour during a New York talk that Bersih 2.0 is not opposed to a probability of a present supervision returning to energy after a next polls, supposing that a leaders have been inaugurated fairly.
"Well, let me tell we where we're entrance from. We do not wish an Arab Spring," a activist pronounced to a eminent CNN chief general correspondent.
Ambiga was being interviewed to one side another pro-reform fighter, Ukraine's Eugenia Tymoshenko, a daughter of a jailed former budding apportion Julia Tymoshenko, upon "Amanpour", a each night unfamiliar affairs programme upon CNN International that Amanpour anchors for.
Both were described by Amanpour as "brave women" as well as "brave voices for democracy".
"We wish to choose a leaders by purify as well as satisfactory elections. We wish to do it by a list box, that is why a supervision really, if they wish peaceful transition of any sort it can be a same government," Ambiga said, according to a transcript of a talk accessible upon CNN.com.
Amanpour had asked Ambiga if she felt that Malaysia would declare a same uprising seen over a past two years in a Middle East, indicating to a fibre of pro-democracy protests that a distinguished lawyer has led since 2007.
To be honest, as far as a transformatio! n is con cerned, we're not we're not disturbed about who wins. We're disturbed about a process.
"The routine is critical since what it needs to reflect is a will of a people. It's about legitimacy. It's about for a right of a voter to vote," she said.
The Arab Spring or a Arab revolution has seen rulers forced from energy in multiform countries opposite a Arab world including Egypt, Tunisia, Libya as well as Yemen, in a call of anti-government travel demonstrations.
"It can be a same people entrance in," insisted Ambiga, stressing again that Bersih 2.0 does not wish a Malaysian chronicle of a Arab Spring.
"They have to concede it to happen by purify as well as satisfactory elections. That's what we're asking for. We wish to bring shift by a list box, if there is to be shift during all," she said.
Ambiga has so far led three Bersih demonstrations in a capital city, amassing a throng of thousands in a march for free as well as satisfactory elections.
The first convene in 2007 was partly credited for a gigantic waste suffered by a ruling Barisan Nasional supervision during Elections 2008, where it unsuccessful to recapture a desired two-thirds parliamentary infancy as well as even ceded 4 states as well as Kelantan to a opposition.
But each Bersih protest had resulted in scenes of chaos as a supervision deployed demonstration police to stop protestors from marching upon a streets of a capital by a make use of of rip gas as well as chemical-laced water.
Since a protests, Ambiga as well as her associate Bersih 2.0 steering committee members have been a aim of attacks by pro-BN hardliners, a small of whom have even hold mini protests outside a leader's home as well as hurled threats as well as racial slurs during her.
But asked if she was afraid, Ambiga told Amanpour that she had small choice in a matter.
"I mean, a choices have been this: we either give in to a int! imidatio n, that equates to we criticise a whole movement, or we mount up to it."
She pointed out that such "oppressive conduct" by those in energy was a transparent denote that a supervision saw a Bersih transformation as well as a throng of thousands it had amassed for a convene as "a threat".
Ambiga additionally done it a indicate to scold Amanpour upon a size of a throng during a last Bersih convene in Kuala Lumpur upon April 28, observant a small 200,000 had attended, instead of a 20,000 that a correspondent had progressing suggested.
"Malaysians do not take to a travel easily. So if they have, there is a good reason for it."
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